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Arknights: Rise from Ember TV Anime Reveals Opening Sequence Video

The staff for Arknights: RISE FROM EMBER, the third television anime season based on Chinese developer Hypergryph's Arknights mobile game, revealed the anime's opening sequence video on Friday. ReoNa performs the opening theme song "End of Days."

The anime will debut on July 4 at 11:30 p.m. on Tokyo MX, and will also air later that evening on KBS Kyoto and Sun TV. The series will also air on BS11 starting on July 6 and on Animax starting on August 2. Crunchyroll will stream the anime starting on July 4.

The anime stars:

• Yuki Kaida as Doctor
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amiya
• Maaya Sakamoto as Talulah
• Shizuka Ishigami as Ch'en
• Yōko Hikasa as Kal'tsit
• Yui Ogura as Rosmontis
• Yuuka Nanri as Theresa
• Ayana Taketatsu as W
• Kiyono Yasuno as Hoshiguma
• Kōichi Yamadera as Wei Yenwu
• Noriko Hidaka as Fumizuki
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Guard
• Ayahi Takagaki as FrostNova
• Banjō Ginga as Patriot
• Aya Uchida as Alina
• Kōhei Amasaki as Mephisto
• Shun Horie as Faust

The staff includes:

• Director: Yuki Watanabe
• Assistant Director: Masaki Nishikawa
• Animation Character Design: Aya Takafuji
• Main Series Writer: Yostar Pictures
• Prop Design: Yoshi Wakayama
• Art Director: Minoru Ōnishi (BIC・STUDIO)
• Art Setting: Ryū Sakamoto (BIC・STUDIO)
• Color Design: Keiko Goto
• Director of Photography: Sai Saiun / Kōhei Tanada (Graphinica)
• CG Director: Yudai Ueno (IKIF+, Inc.)
• Editor: Kengo Shigemura
• Sound Director: Yuki Watanabe
• Sound Editor: Kiyotaka Kawata
• Music Supervisor: Yuki Hayashi
• Music Production: Legendoor / grounding lab
• Animation Producer: Takehiro Hata
• Animation Production: Yostar Pictures

ReoNa performs the opening theme song "End of Days," and Hana Itoki performs the ending theme song "Truth."

The franchise also has a new web anime titled U Takes Terra, directed by Jun Aoki (Pop Team Epic, Gal & Dino, On Air Dekinai!). The series centers around the franchise's joke character U-Official (also known as Streamer U), a constantly unlucky VTuber. The first episode debuted in English in October, and the rest of the anime will debut in 2025.

The game is set in a fantasy world called Terra with modern science-fiction motifs. Terra is plagued by rare but devastating Catastrophes that force most people to live in nomadic cities. Catastrophes also bring forth the rare mineral Originium, which yields high energy and is thus a valuable resource, but also consumes everything around it as it grows. Those with prolonged exposure to Originium easily develop a wasting disease known as Oripathy. The story centers around the lives of Oripathy-infected individuals. A roving medical company known as Rhodes Island offers a helping hand and a place to belong for the often-shunned Infected. However, Rhodes Island has often had to conduct ad-hoc paramilitary actions against the Reunion Movement, a terrorist organization that conducts violent action aimed at governments that oppress the Infected.

Chinese developers Studio Montagne and Hypergryph released the game in China in May 2019, and then Yostar launched the game worldwide in January 2020. The game then inspired several animated promotional videos since 2019 and a nine-minute animated "Holy Knight Light" short in December 2021 to mark the game's first anniversary.

The Arknights: Prelude to Dawn anime premiered in October 2022 and had eight episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.

The Arknights: Perish in Frost television anime debuted in October 2023 and had eight episodes.

Source: Arknights' official YouTube channel via Ota-Suke